The management and improvement of business processes is an evergreen topic of organizational design. With many techniques and tools for process modeling, execution, and improvement being available, research pays progressively more attention to the organizational impact of business process management (BPM) and the development of BPM capabilities. Despite knowledge about the capabilities required...

One significant way in which the duplication issue has remained important emerged from the introduction of another factor. By the time of St. Mâlo and the first U.S. formal response to it, the NATO Alliance was also “seized of” concerns about its own military resources and capacities. Having successfully completed the design phase of adapting the NATO Alliance to meet the challenges of the post...

the imperialist competitive algorithm (ica) that was recently introduced has shown its good performance in optimization problems. this algorithm is inspired by competition mechanism among imperialists and colonies, in contrast to evolutionary algorithms. this paper presents optimization of bead geometry in welding process using of ica. therefore, two case studies from literature are presented t...

Our paper focuses on extending the explanation capabilities of the myCBR SDK as well as on the optimisation of the myCBR SDK in the context of android-based mobile application development. We examined the available knowledge for explanation generation within context-aware CBR systems. The need for the integration of new explanation capabilities was demonstrated by an Android-based contextand ex...

In todays digitized and globalized economy, many industries simultaneously face increasing competitive pressures and unprecedented speed of change in business conditions. As IT budgets are limited, process owners and IT departments need to decide how to divide their spending on efficiency-enhancing and flexibility-enhancing IT capabilities to optimally support the execution of business processe...

Conventional computer architectures provide little or no hardware support for enforcing data security. Access control, if implemented, is left to the operating system, which typically means that access lists are maintained by the system on a per-object basis. However, a class of machines called capability architectures exists in which hardware support for security checking has been implemented....

In this paper, effect of the islands number variation in restoration process is investigated and a graph based method for determination of optimum islands boundaries is presented. Also, the effect of number and location of black-start units on the restoration process is evaluated. In optimization process, objective function is minimizing Energy Not Supplied (ENS) and constraints are voltage mar...

Firms increasingly operate in a dynamic environment. To stay competitive in such an environment firms have to develop organizational capabilities and know-how that enables them to deal with core organizational problems. The concept of organizational capabilities understands organizational change as a continuous and open-ended process of organizational development. However, the concept is still ...